Re: 3dfx Voodoo 3 and XFree on debian/powerpc

2000-09-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Frederic Seraphine wrote: I've been running Debian/powerpc on my powermac 7600/132 since nearly 6 months and it works great. I run xfree framebuffer server over the motherboard control video chip and it runs a bit slowly. Since I've bought a pci voodoo 3 2000 card, and 3dfx provides driver

Re: 3dfx Voodoo 3 and XFree on debian/powerpc

2000-09-18 Thread Frederic Seraphine
Please try XFree86 4.0.1 - look at http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ . As a matter of fact I tried a 4.0 released with the modification brought bye the guys at linuxppc.org. It did run the control driver (but with bugs) and failed to run the tdfx driver. But I'll give a try to the

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jonathan Belson wrote: Has any kind soul got a working XFree86 4.0 config for PReP Powerstacks (Blackhawk, Cirrus Logic graphics) they could send me? I'm running the unofficial .debs from the 'X Strike Force' page, and it doesn't seem to impressed by my attempts to configure it so far 8^/

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Jonathan Belson
Jonathan Belson wrote: I don't think the cirrus driver works on PPC, so you'll have to use the fbdev driver (if you have a framebuffer device at all?). Look at http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/XF86Config Thanks - I'll give it another go. BTW, does the Matrox driver work under

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jonathan Belson wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: I don't think the cirrus driver works on PPC, so you'll have to use the fbdev driver (if you have a framebuffer device at all?). Look at http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/XF86Config Thanks - I'll give it another go.

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Jonathan Belson
Jonathan Belson wrote: BTW, does the Matrox driver work under PowerPC? I have a spare Matrox Millenium sitting in my server, which doesn't even have a monitor attached... If matroxfb works, I think chances are high that the matrox driver works too, with Option UseFBDev. Next dumb question -

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jonathan Belson wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: BTW, does the Matrox driver work under PowerPC? I have a spare Matrox Millenium sitting in my server, which doesn't even have a monitor attached... If matroxfb works, I think chances are high that the matrox driver works too, with

G4: Potato: fbdrv. Need more mouse buttons.

2000-09-18 Thread Nick Bailey
I'm in an almost there state with a new G4 which will be the first of a cluster in use at our new music technolgy lab here at the University of Glasgow. I've read my way through the mail list archive, and tried pretty well everything, but can't get the 2 and 3 button mouse emulation to work.

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:16:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: The matrox driver OTOH is well accelerated, even on top of the framebuffer device. There may be some endianness etc. bugs though. This is just my current understanding, but w/o patches X4 matrox aren't happy on PPC, but the

Re: G4: Potato: fbdrv. Need more mouse buttons.

2000-09-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
I'm in an almost there state with a new G4 which will be the first of a cluster in use at our new music technolgy lab here at the University of Glasgow. I've read my way through the mail list archive, and tried pretty well everything, but can't get the 2 and 3 button mouse emulation to work.

Re: [Q] XFree86 4.0 config for Powerstack?

2000-09-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Sep 18, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:16:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: The matrox driver OTOH is well accelerated, even on top of the framebuffer device. There may be some endianness etc. bugs though. This is just my current understanding, but w/o patches X4

Okay, where is it?

2000-09-18 Thread Chris Ivanovich
Alright, I'm a knucklehead. And I need some basic help... I've installed and am running Debian Potato on a PC (it's doing the IP Masquerading and acting as the firewall for my home network), and I thought that I'd load Potato on my G3 PowerBook, as well. But then, depression set in. I

Re: Okay, where is it?

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:49:44PM -0500, Chris Ivanovich wrote: I checked out the file paths in the docs, and made allowances for the fact that the LSL CD has different directories than the docs list. But no matter what I type in this step, when I hit OK the cursor pops back up the the